Proudly located on the traditional, un-ceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, Full Circle: First Nations Performance presents the 17th Annual Talking Stick Festival
Date/Time: Feb 24 2018, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Vancouver, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | Event calendarCost: $13.00
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Holy Angels | dir. Jay Cardinal Villeneuve | 13 min | Canada | 2017
On the outskirts of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta stands the Holy Angels Residential School, an ominous brick building where hundreds of children were imprisoned. Elder Lena Wandering Spirit recounts her time at Holy Angels, her story taking us on a healing journey that echoes in the dance of Phoenix, a young girl who is the same age now that Lena was during her captivity. Their lives bridge the distance of time and affirm the power that lies within us.
Birth of a Family | dir. Tasha Hubbard | 79 min | Canada | 2017
Three sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families across North America, meet together for the first time in this deeply moving documentary by director Tasha Hubbard. Removed from their young Dene mother’s care as part of Canada’s infamous Sixties Scoop, Betty Ann, Esther, Rosalie and Ben were four of the 20,000 Indigenous children taken from their families between 1955 and 1985, to be either adopted into white families or to live in foster care. As the four siblings piece together their shared history, their connection deepens, bringing laughter with it, and their family begins to take shape.
Q&A to follow screening.
Drawing meaning from the salmon’s journey to their spawning grounds, 2018’s festival is aptly named Scháyilhen (S-ch-eye-yay-lh-un), which translates literally to "Salmon Going Up River"; and speaks to the journey the community is taking towards embracing and celebrating Indigenous art forms and practices.
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Established in 1992, by Margo Kane (Cree/Saulteaux nation), Full Circle is a registered Canadian non-profit, Indigenous Arts organization that provides a platform for Indigenous artists to create, work, and train in the Arts. We engage our community in year-round Indigenous programs (Moccasin Trek: Arts on the Move!, Indian Acts and the Aboriginal Ensemble) in addition to our annual signature event, the Talking Stick Festival.
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